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From: "shan"
Newsgroups: alt.politics.org.fbi
Subject: ...and it's 1,2,3,4, what are fighting with Iraq for? _ Mideast news digert
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 14:10:19 -0400
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Iraq Invites U.N. Inspectors
Saudi Arabia Won't Allow U.S. Troops
Pentagon Briefing Declares Saudi Arabia An Enemy Of The US
Pentagon downplays call for action against Saudi Arabia
Saudis blame Jews for hostile views
Palestinian delegation to meet Powell
U.S. covert action against Saddam would be dicey prospect, experts say
White House says Sept. 11 skyjacker had met Iraqi agent
Iraq Invites U.N. Inspectors
Stewart Stogel, NewsMax.com
Friday, Aug. 2, 2002
UNITED NATIONS - As first reported by NewsMax.com on July 19, Iraqi
President Saddam Hussein has issued a formal invitation for U.N. arms
inspectors to come to Baghdad "at the earliest possible date. "The letter,
sent Thursday night by Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri to U.N.
Secretary-General Kofi Annan, asks that the secretary-general dispatch arms
chief Hans Blix to resolve "outstanding" issues with a goal toward
resumption of inspections.
Those inspections were halted in December 1998 when then U.N. arms chairman
Richard Butler evacuated his personnel in advance of Operation Desert Fox.
Since then, Baghdad has refused repeated requests by the arms inspectors to
return, until now.
Iraq's surprise move comes on the same day the United States took over the
rotating presidency of the Security Council. The United States' U.N. mission
had no immediate comment.
President Bush has repeatedly demanded that Baghdad resume the arms
inspections "without conditions." U.N. diplomats believe that the invitation
issued Thursday night does just that
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2002/8/1/195123.shtml
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Saudi Arabia Won't Allow U.S. Troops
By Donna Abu-Nasr
Associated Press Writer
Wednesday, August 7, 2002; 9:57 AM
JIDDAH, Saudi Arabia -- Saudi Arabia has made clear to Washington - publicly
and privately - that the U.S. military will not be allowed to use the
kingdom's soil in any way for an attack on Iraq, Foreign Minister Prince
Saud said Wednesday.
Saud said in an interview with The Associated Press that his country opposes
any U.S. operation against Iraq "because we believe it is not needed,
especially now that Iraq is moving to implement United Nations resolutions."
"We have told them we don't (want) them to use Saudi grounds" for any attack
on Iraq, he said.
Last week, Iraq invited U.N. chief weapons inspector Hans Blix to Baghdad
for talks that could lead to a resumption of the inspections after more than
3½ years. President Bush has said he is committed to a regime change in Iraq
and war rhetoric is running high. Washington has dismissed the Blix
invitation as a ploy.
Saudi Arabia invited U.S. troops for the 1991 Gulf War to help defend the
oil-rich nation against Iraqi forces.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54295-2002Aug7.html
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Pentagon Briefing Declares Saudi Arabia
An Enemy Of The US
8-6-2
A briefing to a Pentagon defense panel has described Saudi Arabia as an
enemy of the United States and recommended that it be given an ultimatum to
stop backing terrorism, The Washington Post said.
"The Saudis are active at every level of the terror chain, from planners to
financiers, from cadre to foot soldier, from ideologist to cheerleader,"
said Rand Corp. analyst Laurent Murawiec in his July 10 briefing to the
Pentagon's Defense Policy Board.
"Saudi Arabia supports our enemies and attacks our allies," Murawiec said,
describing the country as "the kernel of evil, the prime mover, the most
dangerous opponent" in the Middle East.
He said Washington should demand that Saudi Arabia stop funding
fundamentalist Islamic outlets around the world, cease anti-US and
anti-Israeli statements and "prosecute or isolate those involved in the
terror chain, including the Saudi intelligence services".
If Riyadh did not comply, Saudi oil fields and overseas financial assets
should be "targeted", Murawiec added in his briefing, without specifying
exactly how.
Murawiec's comments did not reflect the Pentagon panel's views or official
US policy, although they had "growing currency" within the administration of
President George W. Bush, the daily said.
An unnamed US official told the paper opinion about Saudi Arabia was
changing rapidly within the US government.
"People used to rationalize Saudi behavior," the official said. "You don't
hear that any more. There's no doubt that people are recognizing reality and
recognizing that Saudi Arabia is a problem."
http://www.rense.com/general27/ndnem.htm
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World: Pentagon downplays call for action against Saudi Arabia
Search the archive for: Saudi Arabia
Special Report: America Responds
By PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (August 6, 2002 1:47 p.m. EDT) - The Pentagon distanced itself
Tuesday from a defense think tank recommendation that the United States
target Saudi oil fields and financial assets if the Arab nation doesn't do
more to fight terrorism.
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The pentagon has distanced itself only because it go LEAKED. Mr. Rumsfeld
must be pissed!
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The suggestion was made in a briefing to the Defense Policy Board, a group
of intellectuals and former senior officials that advises the Pentagon. The
government-funded briefing was produced by Laurent Murawiec, a Rand Corp.
analyst and former adviser to the French Defense Ministry.
Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said disclosure of details of the
classified briefing was harmful because it incorrectly created the
impression that the briefing represented the government's view on Saudi
Arabia.
"It is nonetheless a country where we have a lot of forces located and we
have a had a long relationship, and yet it is correct ... that a number of
the people who were involved (in the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks) happen to
have been Saudi individuals.
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15 of 19 is Some?
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Earlier, the Pentagon released a statement calling Saudi Arabia "a
long-standing friend and ally" and said the Saudis "cooperate fully in the
global war on terrorism and have the department's and administration's deep
appreciation."
Fifteen of the 19 terrorist hijackers on Sept. 11 were Saudi, officials have
said. And though the Pentagon has declined to identify the 598 terror
suspects jailed at its military prison in Cuba, other sources estimate 100
of them are Saudi, the largest or one of the largest groups of prisoners.
If Saudis refused to comply, the briefing continued, Saudi oil fields and
overseas financial assets should be "targeted," although exactly how was not
specified.
http://www.nandotimes.com/world/story/490365p-3913424c.html
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Saudis blame Jews for hostile views
Published 8/7/2002 10:02 AM
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RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Aug. 7 (UPI) -- The Saudi media Wednesday blamed Jews
and Israeli sympathizers for a widely reported article in the U.S. press
that said Pentagon advisers considered the kingdom to be an enemy of the
United States.
The article, published in the Washington Post Tuesday and picked up by other
media outlets, cited a briefing given last month to the Pentagon's top
advisory body, the Defense Policy Board. In it, Saudi Arabia was described
as an enemy of the United States.
The briefing was reported to have recommended that U.S. officials give the
kingdom an ultimatum to stop backing Islamist terrorism or face seizure of
its oil fields and its financial assets invested in the United States.
The mass circulation Okaz said the description of Saudi Arabia as an enemy
to the United States "did not come as a surprise to us because all it's (the
Pentagon's) members are either Jews or allies of the Zionist lobby."
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No doubt Saudi Arabia is a major terrorist seedbed, but the above remark may
not be so far off either.
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http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020807-094147-1665r
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Palestinian delegation to meet Powell
By Eli J. Lake
UPI State Department Correspondent
Published 8/6/2002 7:20 PM
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6 (UPI) -- A delegation of Palestinian Authority ministers,
handpicked by Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, is scheduled meet with
Secretary of State Colin Powell this week to discuss reforms of the
Palestinian Authority.
On Aug. 8 and 9, Palestinian Minister of the Interior Abdel Razak Yehiyeh,
Economic Minister Maher Masri and Minister of Local Governments Saeb Erakhat
also are to have meetings with other U.S. officials in Washington.
State Department deputy spokesman Phil Reeker said Tuesday the meetings
would cover "Palestinian civil reform efforts, a renewal of security
cooperation and progress on political dialogue."
Meanwhile, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told military personnel in a
town hall meeting Tuesday that the Palestinian Authority was not a reliable
interlocutor for negotiations with the Israelis. "There is no question but
that the Palestinian Authority has been involved with terrorist activities.
So that makes it a difficult interlocutor," he said.
http://www.upi.com/view.cfm?StoryID=20020806-063704-7373r
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U.S. covert action against Saddam would be dicey prospect, experts say
Associated Press August 6, 2002
JOHN J. LUMPKIN
WASHINGTON (AP) - To oust Saddam Hussein by covert means, the United States
would have to rely on defecting Iraqi generals or Kurdish insurgents to
defeat loyalist Iraqi military units, yet neither alternative is an
appealing choice, say former CIA officials and other experts.
"The generals are a hard nut to crack," said John Gannon, a former deputy
director for intelligence at the CIA. "To get (Saddam) with covert action is
going to be very, very hard."
"No one currently inside is willing to act against Saddam because they are
terrified they will betrayed," said Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA
counterterrorism chief with experience in the Middle East. "There is such an
aura of fear and repression in that country. It is very unrealistic to think
their military is going to join against him - until they see his dead body."
U.S. President George W. Bush signed an order earlier this year directing
the CIA to increase support to Iraqi opposition groups and allowing possible
use of CIA and military special forces teams against Saddam. The CIA has
declined comment.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2002/020806-iraq2.htm
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White House says Sept. 11 skyjacker had met Iraqi agent
By Bob Drogin, Paul Richter and Doyle McManus
Los Angeles Times
A federal law-enforcement official said yesterday, however, that the FBI has
been reviewing Atta's possible ties to Iraq, including travel and phone
records, with "renewed vigor" in recent weeks.
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They'd better be careful, or else they may come full circle back around to
Oklahoma City....
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